Welcome to the site, I’m Lex and I’m a total geek when it comes to the path of Yoga. It’s true, there’s no denying it at this point. For over fifteen years I have been studying, practicing and teaching the art of exquisite alignment. Yes, the physical alignment of the postures we all typically think of when hearing the word Yoga, but more important to me (as both a teacher and a student) is the art of finding exquisite inner alignment.

The further along I journey down this path of Yoga the more and more simple things have become.  I started out believing the transcendental moments of awakening and/or the mystical encounters (I’ll be honest - some plant induced others not 😜) were the potent moments that would eventually help free me from suffering and catapult me into living a life that was one with my heart’s genuine desires.  

You see, what brought me to yoga was years of secrets, struggle and shame. I had battled an eating disorder for over a decade and came to a point where I was willing to admit I needed tremendous help and that I was most definitely at rock bottom. I was afraid of what my life had turned into and so ashamed that I couldn’t just “snap out of it.”

I checked into an inpatient treatment facility for people struggling with eating disorders. I remember the first time I stepped on my mat at that treatment center, it felt like the clouds parted and heaven literally shined down upon me. Yoga became my path for healing – not just my eating disorder but healing the wounds of my heart that led to the disorder in the first place.

The path of yoga walked me back to myself, one practice at a time, and reconnected me with my authentic self, my purpose, and a genuine longing to help others whose hearts hurt.

There was a time in the beginning of my yoga journey - about 5 years in - when I told myself that I needed to be something “more than” or “better than” JUST a yoga teacher and therapist. Can you relate to this voice? For a few years I strived to “re-create” myself in a plethora of ways that I told myself were more important than the world of Yoga and I always ended up right back where I started…on the yoga mat. 

I continued to teach publicly in San Diego and saw clients for yoga therapy at my home studio but it wasn’t until around the 10 year mark that I really settled into my “groove.” This period solidified that there wasn’t anything better for me to be doing with my time and energy and in fact, that frantic search for “better” was affecting all the areas of my life (not just professionally). This drive for “more, better or different” – which in Yoga we refer to as a “rajasic tendency” – was responsible for pressuring me to become someone I’m not and do something other than my heart’s calling.

When I accepted that teaching the principles and path of yoga both in class settings and individual therapy sessions - in all its simplicity and complexity - was my “dharma” or purpose, I recommitted myself to the path of Yoga and opened my own studio.

It was this space that allowed me to show up and teach in my unique way - weaving together a very physical class with self-reflection/meditation all supported by philosophical and contemplative teachings. This sacred space held the hearts of so many who came to yoga therapy as a source for healing, reconnection and empowerment.

It was this “willingness” to step out on my own, without the structure or framework or mold of an already established and successful yoga studio, that brought my teaching to a new level, challenging me to grow in all ways humans evolve and refine themselves.

After two years, my studio had never been so busy - classes sold out with waitlists - when my husband and I were blessed with a baby boy. Hahah, great timing! (wink) Also around this time, it became clear that as a family we needed to relocate for my husband’s business.

At 7.5 months pregnant, I left my yoga community I had been apart of for almost 15 years. I closed the doors to my yoga studio and private yoga therapy practice and we moved to Newport Beach, CA.

Why I share this with you is to explain what inspired me to create Your Daily Groove Online Studio and YouTube Channel. Before I had my son, I’ll be honest, I was never an “online” yoga person. In fact, even during Covid, when the whole world was working out online, I wasn’t an online exercise of any type, type of person. Just wasn’t my thing.

It wasn’t until I had my son, when I realized the importance of movin’ + groovin’ and centering myself in the short 39 minute window I had when he would nap in the morning.

Before I had my son, I had all the time and freedom to explore movement, meditation and philosophy on a daily basis. But with a three-month-old, I quickly realized I had to choose. I didn’t look at this bitterly as if my freedom I once had was being robbed from me (I see how the mind could go in that direction), instead I saw this as an invitation to refine my skills at understanding exactly what I needed that DAY to get into my groove.